October 28th, 2004

If you believe that political and social liberty go hand in hand with economic freedom — and that they form an underpinning of a vibrant free market — you should be worried about another four years like the four we’ve just had. Dan Gillmor’s eJournal  

Can you imagine how popular this guy would be if he ever did something right? Fanatical Apathy  

Six more days, then I’ll sleep. Fables of the reconstruction  

If you take a moment and you sniff the air, what you get is the assaultive whiff of desperation coming from the Bush administration and the right wing of this country. The Rude Pundit  

Please, for heaven’s sake, just relax and realize that a little bit of dissent is not going to bring the whole structure crashing down around your ears. Bitch. Ph.D.  

We sure do seem to have an awful lot of rotten apples. Maybe it’s time to chop down that old tree. Body and Soul  

If I were a swing voter, I can’t imagine anything more likely to make me vote Democratic than having my desktop invaded by talking, dancing Republican adware. Crooked Timber  

This reminds me of when I wanted to know why my Palm Pilot stopped working after I dropped it in the bath tub. Talking Points Memo  

What does it tell you when Warren Buffett, Robert Rubin and John Bogle — perhaps the three best-respected money guys in the country — all favor Kerry? Andrew Tobias  

Instead the U2 iPod looks like the A-Team van. Airbag  

The amount of high explosive now revealed to have gone missing from a single site in Iraq could produce the equivalent of 4000 blasts on the scale of the explosion that destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. William Gibson